S.T.A.G.E. said:
Whoa buddy, now hold on a sec! Nintendo never purchased Rare (Which they should've). Microsoft did the right thing and acquired Rare, because true developer loyalty is a Rarity. Nintendo lost track of that and paid for it when Sony came along. When Sony joined gaming i called it "The Corporate Era", because gaining titles became less about loyalty (Sega and Nintendos code) and more about who can moneyhat. Its a damn shame what Sony did to Nintendo's faith in third party to begin with. Microsoft didn't steal a thing. |
Well the corporate era f----g sucks. Nintendo arn't making core games because all their developers f---ed off this gen. to other companies, this is directly relatable to either moneyhatting or company aquisitions. This is my opinion.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
